A regional leadership shake up at SoftwareOne will enable it to “shift gears”, its newly crowned sole CEO claimed as he unveiled soaring first-half numbers.
The Swiss software licensing and cloud behemoth this morning announced it has promoted three regional leaders to its board in a move designed to bring leadership closer to customers.
These are Rico Andreoli, Regina Manfredi and Varun Paliwal, who will head up the Americas, EMEA and APAC, respectively.
“Bringing leadership closer”
The boardroom rejig is the first major move of Raphael Erb since he was made sole CEO of the enlarged organisation on 1 August.
It comes as the giant Microsoft partner unveiled half-year results showing revenue powering up 68.2% to CHF 818.3m in the wake of last summer’s union with Crayon.
Like-for-like revenue growth hit 11.6% at constant currency, while adjusted EBTIDA margin rose 4.5 percentage points to 24.9%.
In a statement, Erb said SoftwareOne’s post-Crayon leadership and organisational structure is now “fully established”.
“We will now shift gears,” he said.
“The new composition of the Executive Board reflects SoftwareOne’s next phase of development, bringing leadership closer to customers, partners and markets, simplifying decision-making and strengthening accountability to accelerate execution.”
Although SoftwareOne doesn’t attach any importance to its gross sales, for the purposes of a fun comparison with other VAR powerhouses its first-half gross sales tally stood at CHF 9.27bn (£8.47bn).
To put that in perspective, the three largest UK-headquartered VARs, Computacenter and Softcat and Bytes Technology Group, posted gross sales stood at £13bn and £3.6bn and £2.3bn in their latest years (see here, here and here).
Despite a surge in its share price this morning, SoftwareOne’s market value – at CHF 2.21bn (£2bn) – is still significantly lower than that of Computacenter (£5.2bn) and Softcat (£4bn), however.
“No suspicion of criminal activity”
SoftwareOne’s H1 results also brought welcome news that a review by the Zurich Public Prosecutor’s Office into an alleged forgery of documents relating to recording of certain overdue trade receivables has now concluded.
“In June 2026 the Prosecutor informed that the review was concluded having found no suspicion of criminal activity,” SoftwareOne stated.
“SoftwareOne was not under investigation. Internal and external reviews commissioned by the Board of Directors also concluded that the allegations are without merit.”
Digging into its performance, SoftwareOne said Microsoft EA to CSP conversion fuelled growth in many of its regions, including western Europe – where like-for-like revenue rose 11.7% to CHF 169.9m.
The Stans-based outfit in June unveiled plans to raise its EBITDA margin to 28% by 2030.
Reported EBITDA for H1 hit 22.7%, up 5.2 per centage points year on year, which SoftwareOne said was driven by “revenue growth, synergy impact and continuous cost control, while also reflecting lower restructuring costs compared to the prior year”.
In light of the performance, SoftwareOne reiterated full-year guidance targeting mid to high-single digit like-for-like revenue growth and 23% adjusted EBITDA margins.
